BANGKOK, Oct 2 Indonesian President Joko Widodo called for a thorough investigation into the unrest at football match of the country's first league in the city of Malang, which led to mass deaths, according to the Indonesian national news agency ANTARA on Sunday. at least 174 people were killed in a stampede at the city stadium. The President instructed the leadership of the country's police and the Indonesian Football Association to conduct a thorough investigation into the tragedy, ANTARA reports. «This must be a thorough, very thorough investigation. We must be sure that the mistakes that led to tragedy will not happen again,» Joko Widodo said in a televised address to the nation on Sunday. «We must ensure that this football The tragedy was the last in the country's history,» the president added, quoted by the agency. The stampede at the stadium occurred on Saturday evening after the end of the Indonesian First League match between the teams of Arema (city of Indonesia). Malang) and «Persebaya» (Surabaya), ANTARA reports. The Arema team lost a match for the first time in 22 years, and lost at home. After the final whistle, a group of angry fans entered the field and started chasing the referees and players of their team. The police, who also took to the field and tried to reason with the fans, were injured. Within minutes, more than 3,000 fans of the losing team were on the field. Most of the police officers who kept order at the match were taken to the field. Another part at that time organized the evacuation of the 40,000-strong stadium of the fans of the winning Persebay team, who were then taken out of the city on buses with police escort.
